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Saturday, January 23, 1999
Chandigarh -- Headlines
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
Badal calls for scrapping Article 356 Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today pleaded for scrapping Article 356 of the Constitution to create better understanding between the Centre and the states. This provision empowers the Centre to impose Presidentís rule in the state. Badal was speaking in the inter-state council meeting in Delhi chaired by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.Give up post, Tohra tells CM Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) supremo Gurcharan Singh Tohra today reacted with anguish over the suspension of SGPC acting chief Sukhdev Singh Bhaur from the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and repeated his suggestion to Chief Minister Badal to hand over presidentship of SAD to "someone else" to provide good governance. US for `new partnership'n In unusually warm remarks that appear to signal a definite thawing of the glacial ties between Washington and New Delhi in the post-nuclear test era, a key Clinton administration official has said that the United States hopes to define a new partnership with India, possibly matching its ties with China in the economic sphere in the long run. Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.

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